Interface Definition Language conversions: Recursive types

Abstract

A large heterogeneous network contains many applications developed in different environments, each with its own incompatible interface definition language. One way of dealing with this diversity is to define a conversion from the interfaces of one system into another, thus giving access from the second system to the first. This presents a number of difficulties, amongst which is the different representation of recursive types in different languages. This paper gives two algorithms for converting the representation of such recursive types between different styles of interface definition languages. © 1994, ACM. All rights reserved.